the team by finishing in the deadly fourth place. 1996 looked to be her year. She qualified for the 10000 metres in her personal record of 31:54.03, set in the cool evening at the Mt. SAC Relays and was leading the Olympic Trials 10000 metres deep into the race before succumbing to the Atlanta heat and humidity, not finishing. In 2000, she made the Olympic Trials in the 10000 meters, finishing in a non-qualifying sixth place. At age 38, she again qualified for the 10000 metres at the 2004 Olympic trials, her fifth in a row. Earlier she also ran in the Marathon Olympic trials. She was the cover girl on the July 1991 issue of Running Times. Road Racing Sylvia has found her best success at the Half Marathon distance, where she won the 2001 National Championships. She was runner up in 2000,. Those results put her on the US National team at the 2001 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. She had further Half Marathon victories in the Austin Half Marathon and the America's Finest City Half Marathon. She set her personal record of 2:33:47 in the Marathon at the New York City Marathon in 2002. Along with a 2:36:38 at the Los Angeles Marathon, that brought her to number 4 on the US rankings that year. She also holds the course record at the 3M Half Marathon. 2003 New York Marathon 2:33.10 First American 10th, 3M Half Marathon 2004 P.R. 1:09.51 First overall Cross Country She was on the US squad for the 1992 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing 42nd in the "Long Race" and taking a team silver medal. In 1997 she set the still standing course record on the difficult Twilight's Last Gleaming Cross Country Challenge. Masters career In 2006, she joined the all female See Jane Run team, which has won numerous open national championships with a senior group of elite women. In 2007, she was named head coach of the Los Angeles City College Track and Cross Country teams That same year she was named "W40 Masters Age Division Runner of the Year" following Masters wins at the Cooper River Bridge Run and the Gate River Run and a second place showing at the Peachtree Road Race. In 2009, she won the Masters Division of the prestigious Carlsbad 5000 According to a USATF press release, in her spare time, she enjoys salsa dancing.